Polyphony Quotes

• The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of parts can completely express the idea. The idea found it necessary to be presented by several parts. After that, there was a rapid flowering of polyphony.

  Anton Webern

  Ideas, Space, Unions

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Kings, Stars

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• Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Stars

  "Equality". The Spectator, Volume CLXXI, archive.spectator.co.uk. August 27, 1943.

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• In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Piano, Complexity, Higher

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• I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

  James Sellars

  Musical, Doe, Strings

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• For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

  Steven Price

  Guitar, Perfection, Renaissance

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• An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Past, Sacred, Lineage

  "Gloria in excelsis deo: Britain tunes in to its spiritual side" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2014.

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• All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Poetry, Records

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• I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.

  Colin Marston

  Player, Two, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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